Example sentences of "[noun pl] would be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sequences of words would be flashed up on a VDU , so quickly that — in theory — they could only be perceived subliminally . |
| 2 | sort of a figure of speech , but with narrative it 's it was always understood that the words would be spelled out more |
| 3 | words would be spelled out more yes . |
| 4 | The sea would start to roar at night , and the curlews would be hurled down the glen like dun-coloured bullets . |
| 5 | By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . |
| 6 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 7 | All corporate tax relief on company cars would be phased out , and new cars sold without catalysts would attract higher taxes . |
| 8 | Occasionally , after a dance , they would decide to go swimming in the early hours of the morning , so all the cars would be lined up with their headlamps blazing to light up the pool . |
| 9 | Since land allotments would be carved out of land that belonged to the gentry , serfs would have to pay for them . |
| 10 | The corporation agreed , and even paid £200 so that the new shops would be set back from the previous building line . |
| 11 | Newspapers and packets would be thrown out by Cadwallader onto the platform while any more fragile parcels would be carefully lobbed into Mrs Bason 's out-stretched skirt . |
| 12 | Tha that would mean that all pensioners who are drawing the pension from pension funds would be penalised back to the date that you 're talking about . |
| 13 | They knew what this new attack would mean to them , that more little shopkeepers would be driven out of business by the poverty of the people and their inability to purchase goods . |
| 14 | Loss-making state enterprises would be obliged to enter the market ; impediments to the development of the market would be removed , including those for stocks and bonds ; and more areas would be opened up to foreign trade and investment . |
| 15 | Shoes would be kicked off beneath the desks and lie untidily askew . |
| 16 | In sheltered positions the effect of the westerly winds would be minimised , while that of easterly winds would be accentuated out of normal proportion . |
| 17 | Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves . |
| 18 | Receipts from the sale of the licences would be ploughed back into the provision of improved public transport . |
| 19 | The effects of new policies would only be felt when the next analysis was made when , presumably , such effects would be picked up in observable data . |
| 20 | If the policy was successful , its effects would be picked up when the next analysis was undertaken , and projected into the future . |
| 21 | Then the nets would be hauled in . |
| 22 | If a Karen died away from home , his body would be buried and later his bones would be brought back to his native village . |
| 23 | A train of empty wagons was hauled by locomotive to the quarry entrance while a train of full wagons would be brought up from the quarry . |
| 24 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 25 | Their vacant seats would be taken up , with effect from Jan. 1 , 1991 , by Austria , Belgium , Ecuador , India and Zimbabwe , all elected for the standard two-year term by the General Assembly when its 45th session ( opened on Sept. 18 — see pp. 37731-32 ) ended its general debate on Nov. 1 . |
| 26 | Up to 50 European observers would be brought in to protect the ceasefire in Slovenia and " possibly " in Croatia ( an advance party arriving on July 9 ) . |
| 27 | It seemed yesterday that the conflicting ideas would be sorted out by President Mobutu , and that a political settlement was in sight . |
| 28 | Old coal stations would be pensioned off , and any new ones would have FGD put in more cheaply . |
| 29 | The additional contributions would be channelled back to the lending institutions by the Department of Social Security . |
| 30 | All the stuff that lab needs would be housed up here . |